running a mirror server.

[William Hooper]

akonstam at trinity.edu said:
> If you are going to run a mirror to be used locally on our campus does
> rsyncd need to be running and take part in the ability of the server to
> distribute files through the web interface?

If you only want to provide web access you don't need to run an rsync server.

> Because I noticed that although the rsync rpm has a rsync file and a
> rsyncd.conf man page it does not contain a rsyncd file or a rsyncd.conf
> file. So if these latter files are needed where does one get them? --

The same rsync binary is used.

LinuxJournal had a couple of good articles on setting up an rsync server
(which, again, isn't needed for just web access).

http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6475
http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6508

-- 
William Hooper